unmonopolize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + monopolize
Verb[edit]
unmonopolize (third-person singular simple present unmonopolizes, present participle unmonopolizing, simple past and past participle unmonopolized)
- (transitive) To recover or release from being monopolized.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 2nd book, page 71:
- and unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry, from the greasie clutch of ignorance,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unmonopolize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)